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Quote: Red pepper flakes!? You mean HOT pepper flakes? These are the only ones I know off. I have a mental picture of those eggs being ejected like the jump seat on a F11!

Thank you for the reasurance. I mean I love my girls but would like an occasional offering from them The isa brown was an after thought and I am so grateful to her. BTW, they are all the same age.

I am sooo disappointed. My isa brown has been laying for weeks and those 3 "whities" - nothing. They are getting fatter by the day. I feed them laying pellets, kitchen scraps and some fallen fruits. Even oats and sultanas as a treat. Have I bought 3 nuns? There is no rooster.

digitS' : When they first start laying, pullets have a lot of "misses." Someone said that it takes awhile for the plumbing to work right. That's about it. I read that as many as 40% of the first ova are reabsorbed rather than continuing to develop into an egg. How this is known, I'm not sure...

My 24 week old brown isa had started to lay eggs. What joy. I got 7 eggs so far and now - nothing. Sometimes I hear her "just laid an egg cackle" and I rush out, still nothing. I wonder if hens can have a phantom "pregnancy". There is no rooster. All I know about chickens I learned here. Any...

I am a brand new member but knew about this site for a while. I have learned so much from it. I only got 3 hens at Christmas (light sussex) from a neighbour and knew absolutely nothing about keeping chickens. 2 weeks ago I added a bown isa and she laid her first egg today. I am soooo exited. So...